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{{Infobox Story
|image = Reconnaissance.jpg
|name=Reconnaissance
|image=Reconnaissance.jpg
|series=[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]s
|series=[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]s
|doctor=Third Doctor
|doctor = Third Doctor
|companions=[[Liz Shaw|Liz]]
|companions = [[The Brigadier]], [[Liz Shaw|Liz]]
|featuring=[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]]
|enemy= {{Delgado|c}}  
|enemy= {{Delgado|c}}  
|setting=
|setting=
|writer=[[Terrance Dicks]]
|writer = Terrance Dicks
|publication=[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]
|publication=''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]''
|prev=Loop the Loup (short story)
|release date = September 1993
|prev = Loop the Loup (short story)
|next=The Changeling Years (short story)
|next=The Changeling Years (short story)
}}
}}
'''''Reconnaissance''''' was a short story in the ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]''.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
Liz Shaw is left back at UNIT Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the Doctor and the Brigadier go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. The Master arrives and hypnotises Liz into telling him ''everything'' she knows about the Doctor. The Master considers how to best make use of all he has learned. He decides the [[Nestene Consciousness]] and the [[Silurian]]s sound very promising. He makes Liz forget he was ever there and leaves. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.
[[Liz Shaw]] is left back at [[UNIT]] Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the [[Third Doctor|Doctor]] and the [[Brigadier]] go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. {{delgado|c}} arrives and hypnotises Liz into telling him ''everything'' she knows about the Doctor. The Master considers how to best make use of all he has learned. He decides the [[Nestene Consciousness]] and the [[Silurian]]s sound very promising. He makes Liz forget he was ever there and leaves. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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* The story is set at some unspecified point after the events of the television story ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' and before those of ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The story is set at some unspecified point after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', and before those of [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''.
* Liz decides to leave [[UNIT]], not immediately, but "soon". One account of her departure is depicted in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Country of the Blind (short story)|Country of the Blind]]'', and another in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]''.
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Latest revision as of 22:55, 29 February 2024

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Reconnaissance was a short story in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1994.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Liz Shaw is left back at UNIT Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the Doctor and the Brigadier go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. The Master arrives and hypnotises Liz into telling him everything she knows about the Doctor. The Master considers how to best make use of all he has learned. He decides the Nestene Consciousness and the Silurians sound very promising. He makes Liz forget he was ever there and leaves. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]